How to Live an Intentional Life

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How Can You Live an Intentional Life?

• Know your purpose. The first step toward leaving a legacy is to design your future. Envision your future. If you’re stuck, write out your eulogy or your legacy. Writing a legacy story for yourself or your company can help you create focus and find clarity for who you are, what you do, and why it matters. Write out your legacy for your future self or brand. Don’t minimize the glory of its life-changing achievements and the impact it makes in the world.
• Create a manifesto. “Manifestos are active,” says author Todd Henry. Rather than a mission or vision statement, a manifesto is active. It forces you to say yes or no. It’s impossible to read a manifesto without thinking, “I’m in or I’m out.”
• Envision your impact. Impact gets created when you’re on a mission to achieve something that endures. The best way to create a lasting impact is to live every day with a clear vision of the kind of impact you want to make. Make choices that commit you to success. That’s what legacy is all about.
• Create Goals. When your goals align with what you’re on a mission to accomplish, it makes it easy to say yes to what matters and no to things that are potential distractions.
• Be focused. Blair Enns shared this quote from Jony Ive, former SVP of Design for Apple, “What focus means is saying no to something that with every bone in your body you think is a phenomenal idea, you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you are focusing on something else.”

Intentional living means knowing your goals, understanding your values, and living out those values through guiding principles and actions toward your purpose.

Thanks for prompting this conversation, Chris.

“Live intentionally and you will create a legacy.”